Crafty Purple Frog Launch

Can I badger you for a cuppa sometime?

February 19th, 2021

Whoop whoop here we are on Friday 19th February and the lovely Amy from Crafty Purple Frog has launched her very own hand drawn range of stamps and stencils....it has been in the making for a while and we here at the Crafty Purple Frog design team are over the moon for her. (I am uber excited to have been chosen to be on the DT for Amy).

For my first card using these awesome products I have gone with a simple, bright and fun card which is perfect for the current Covid 19 situation, yet includes a technique for first time crafts or the more established crafters out there. 

To start I cut a white layer from Heffy Doodle Alcohol Marker friendly card which I am currently addicted to as it gives a great base for blending colours together and its so smooth to work on. I cut the layer at 3.75 x 3.75 inches (sorry i'm old school and haven't fully allowed CMs into my crafty life). Next I found something circular which fit onto the card about half an inch in from the top, bottom and sides to draw around in pencil, that way we can rub it out before we colour our images, I used a roll of tape for this.

I then stamped the the small sunflower from the Flowers and Berries stamp set at the top making sure that the circle I drew went through the centre of each image, I used Memento Tuxedo Black ink for this as it is alcohol marker friendly. At the same time I stamped an extra 3 sunflowers onto Heffy Doodle memo tape to make some masks.

I masked off the first sunflower and continued to stamp around to the end where you will need another mask to get that last sunflower in place. Once all stamped I rubbed out the line.

To stamp the badger from The Sett stamp set I needed to mask off the 3 bottom sunflowers to make it look like the badger is behind the them. Tip-add so more memo tape to the bottom of the card so you don't get any of the badger on the bottom!  Once stamped I coloured the sunflowers using Spectrum Noir Tri-Blends and the badger using Copics, you don't have to use these markers you can use what you already have in your stash. To make the badger complete I stamped out the tea cup, coloured it and popped it in the badgers paw my making a small slit with a craft knife.

To finish the card off I stamped my sentiment from the Sentiments Sett using an embossing ink onto black card, covered in white embossing powder and heat set with my heat tool. To add a bit of dimension I used foam dots to pop this up on my card.

I hope you like my card and it inspires you to get crafty.  I'll be back in the coming daysweeks with more cards made from The Craft Purple Frogs creations. 

Happy Crafting.

Supplies used which can all be found in the Crafty Purple Frog Online Store - 

The Sett Stamp Set 

Sentiments Sett 

Flowers & Berries Stamp Set 

Heffy Doodle Alcohol Marker Friendly Card

Heffy Doodle Memo Tape

Memento Tuxeo Black Ink

Spectrum Noir Tri-Blend Markers

WOW White Embossing Powder